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N309XZ

Kitty Hawk MULE SPA-BETA

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codeseVTOLElectricCalifornia

N309XZ is a Kitty Hawk MULE SPA-BETA, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2020. It is registered to Wisk Aero LLC, an LLC in Mountain View, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated December 14, 2022.

Kitty Hawk: Early eVTOL developer (Heaviside), closed 2022

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Aircraft

Maker
Kitty Hawk (United States)
Model
MULE SPA-BETA
Serial number
009
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
ElectricFAA type of engine code 10 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 13 motors
Seats
0
Year built
2020
Transponder code
A342E6 (octal 50641346)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 19, 2026
Expires
August 31, 2033
Last FAA action
August 19, 2026
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Unmanned aircraft, research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 9A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 14, 2022
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01293374

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wisk Aero LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
2700 Broderick Way
Mountain View, CA 94043-1108

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N309XZ links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Mountain View, CA 52 aircraft registered in this town
  • California 27,897 aircraft registered

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The public federal record on N309XZ, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Wisk Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 19, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated December 14, 2022, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N309XZ according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N309XZ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data